Synopsis:
Three interrelated tales linked by the theme of death. A morgue assistant witnesses gut-wrenching autopsies and mutilated corpses on a daily basis. But strangest of all is the behaviour of his oddballs colleagues. In another part of town, a professional killer begins to view his job with grave misgivings. This tormented soul begins to act in an increasingly erratic manner much to the consternation of his triad bosses. The third character is a cook who works in a prison. His job is to cook for inmates on death row, and to record their dying wishes. This unholy trio finds out in different ways that the most beautiful moments of life are often those closest to death.

Leaving in Sorrows 8/6 (Mon)
2001 /90min./Color/
In Cantonese with Chinese & English subtitles
Director: Vincent Chui
Cast: Shawn Yu, Duncan Lai, Crystal Lui, Tony Ho

Synopsis:
From the director of Fear of Intimacy, Leaving in Sorrows is a gritty, realistic portrayal of Hong Kong in the aftermath of the Asian Financial cameras, natural lighting and real locations. The film follows a disparate group of characters including a pastor, a magazine editor, and a slacker from San Francisco who find their lives suddenly turned upside down by events beyond their control.

Innocent 9/6 (Tue)
2005/ 80min./color/
In Cantonese, Mandarin and English with Chinese and English subtitles
Director, Scriptwriter: Simon Chung

Synopsis:
Innocent is the story of a Hong Kong family who immigrates to Canada and in the process is forced to confront different emotional and cultural problems. The story of the Tang family is told mainly through the eyes of the young hero, Eric, a 17 year-old boy who, during the course of the film, must not only adjust to the new environment, but also come to terms with his homosexuality. Eric encounters a series of potential romantic interests throughout the course of the film, from his handsome hockey-playing cousin Chris to a middle aged lawyer Larry. But it is his unconventional classmate James with whom Eric is most enamored. When his love is rebuffed Eric begins to act in selfdestructive ways. Mrs. Tang, meanwhile, finds her marriage foundering in the new country. With the help of mainland immigrant Mr. Chia, she opens a new restaurant, while Mr. Tang finds comfort in the arms of a neighbourhood temptress. Eric, too, forms a new attachment to an illegal immigrant Ah Cheng, who works in his mother's kitchen. His effort to help Ah Cheng brings him into inevitable conflict with his mother, and has unforeseen consequences for himself.

Ethan Mao 10/6 (Wed)
2004/ 85min./color/
In English with Chinese and English subtitles
Director, Scriptwriter: Quentin Lee

Synopsis:
Ethan Mao is just your normal Chinese-American teen, until he is thrown out by his orthodox father for being gay. Forced to survive on the streets, he plans to retrieve his belongings by breaking into his own house...... when suddenly things turn very, very wrong. Hong Kong-born director Quentin Lee's explosive third film is at once a nail-bitingly teen thriller and a moving family drama. Capturing the awkwardness and innocence of young gay men, it is also touching portrayal of unselfish love. After all, the difficulties in coming out to our Chinese parents are all too real. But how far will Ethan go to make them understand?

Women's Private Parts 11/6 (Thur)
2001/ 90min./color/
In Cantonese with Chinese subtitles
Director: Wong Chun Chun

Synopsis:
A frank and insightful award-winning documentary on Chinese female sexuality, made up primarily of interviews. The entire film was made by women, and the result is quite honestly stunning. An inside look at sex, top to bottom, from Chinese women's perspective.

The Map of Sex and Love 12/6 (Fri)
2001/ 140min./color/
In Cantonese and English with Chinese and English subtitles
Director, Scriptwriter: Evans Chan

Synopsis:
A filmmaker (Wei Ming), a dancer (Larry) and a drifting girl (Mimi) meet on Hong Kong's Lamma Island. Their individual paths take them into each other's lives, dreams and secrets. These include a traumatic experience in Belgrade, a rubber band supposed to cure one's homosexual urges, and mysterious Nazi gold allegedly laundered through post-war Macau. At the end of their journey they seem to realize that the map of the human heart is circumscribed by the map of the world, and each person must find his way through the map of sex and love.

Let's Love Hong Kong 13/6 (Sat)
2002/ 87min./color/
In Cantonese and English with Chinese and English subtitles
Director, Scriptwriter: Yau Ching

Synopsis:
Hong Kong. Sometime in the future. The city is dark and grubby - a cacophonous clash of technology, neon, cheap houses, sex and food. Zero sells sex toys, and just about everything else. "Home" is a deserted movie theatre she shares with other squatters. Across town, Nicole is a powerful, businesswoman who is plagued by restlessness. She relieves only through nightly sessions with a sexy woman on the interactive porn website: "Let's Love". Chan Kwok Chan is Nicole's cyber-stripper sex toy. Isolated by choice, Chan regularly visits a female prostitute for sex, but can't connect with anyone in her own life. Acclaimed short filmmaker Yau Ching makes a bold impression with her debut feature in this intriguing story about three women whose lives quietly intersect. Ho Yuk (Let's Love Hong Kong) is a love poem to a vibrant but tough-as-nails city.

Cross Harbor Tunnel 14/6(Sun)
1999/ 90 min./color/
In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
Director: Lawrence Wong Scriptwriter: Cheuk Wan Chi

Synopsis:
Four hilariously off-beat stories, apparently based on true events of real people: A bored yet curious yuppie couple experiments with alternative lifestyle; an itchy triad boss gives the newest recruit his first lesson; a pair of middle-aged cop brothers come out to each other in a public toilet; a drunk sobers up to look for his true love, only to find that he is too emotional for his own good and last but not least, two Filipina maids kick, scream and fight for their own Tagalog Don Juan.

All Tomorrows Parties 15/6 (Mon)
1999/96 min./color/
In Mandarin
Director, Scriptwriter: Nelson Yu
Cast¡G Yong Won-cho , Yi-nan, Wei Wei Zhao

Synopsis:
In a post-apocalyptic 21st century, Continental Asia lives under the rule of the political and religious sect Gui Dao, which blends Maoist rhetorics with Buddhist iconography¡K

Zhuai and his younger brother Mian are arrested and deported to a camp called Prosperity for re-education. Survival in the camp means hunger, bureaucratic rules, degradation and humiliation. After the catastrophic fall of the sect, the guards of the camp escape, leaving the inmates ¡§free¡¨. Zhuai and Mian wander around before leaving the camp together with beautiful Xuelan and her baby. They find themselves in the desert wastelands of their post-war post-industrial world. They try to rediscover everyday life in a shabby apartment of an abandoned mining town. Are their dreams only of a virtual future?

Breeze of July 16/6 (Tue)
2007/ 95min./color/
In Cantonese Mandarin and Shanghainese with Chinese and English subtitles
Director, Scriptwriter: Stanley Tam
Cast: Monie Tung, Sammy Leung and Koo Kam Wah

Synopsis:
A story about a shanghai-platanaceae is going to be cut off; a mother with secrete beneath without a words in 40 years; waiting for a call from long distance and a breeze of July. It happened between Shanghai and Hong Kong. A 29-year-old girl, Lan Xin, believed there is no way out in her life by seeing a credit notice from a money collector company brutally stuck on the door. By going though a Shanghai trip, and with Big Head, Lan Xin offers herself a self-refection and acknowledgment, and also understands the meaning of growing up. Something can be re-started when you make up your mind in time. Then, she finds out her death mother good old days by meeting an uncle in Shanghai. She also make up her mind to her childhood friend, Big Head, again by moving back into the old mansion and also finds a new born of herself. As Big Head's word, the breeze of July, there will always be a way out. She believed in."

Lovers on the Road 17/6 (Wed)
2008/ 73min./color/
In Cantonese and Putonghua with Chinese and English Subtitles
Director: Tsang Tsui-Shan
Cast: Joman Chiang, Dick So, Otsuka Masanobu

Synopsis:
Lei and her boyfriend Nam have a big fight over an ex of his before moving to Beijing. Now he works in a design firm, and she wanders the city asking other outsiders naive questions: how long have you been in Beijing? What do you miss most? She hooks up with a loquacious Japanese who waits tables in the posh 798 art market, and travels with him to Shanxi for Buddha statues. Will she bed him? Is she taking the initiative or will she let him? Tsang Tsuishan¡¦s debut feature observes a 200% self-absorbed young woman in perpetual transit, going from nowhere to nowhere.

King of Spy 18/6 (Thur)
2008/75min./Color/
In Cantonese with English subtitles
Director: CHU Ka Yat
Cast: Hark CHU, Chris FUNG, Lisa NGAN, Wilson CHU, David CHOW

Synopsis:
The production fee for shooting a film with a mixture of James Bond, Mission Impossible, Matrix, The Departed and Jim Carrey¡¦s jokes must be astronomical, mustn¡¦t it? It costs however HKD5000 only to shoot Revolutionist with all the above elements. Ridiculous as it may appear, the film is shot with incredible techniques and extraordinary editing, pays tribute to the Hong Kong film industry, and most importantly, celebrates the independent spirit. Not only does the title Revolutionists refer to the protagonists, but it also refers to anyone who devotes themselves to the indie film industry.

End of Love 19/6 (Fri)
2008/95min./color/
In Cantonese with English subtitles
Director: Simon Chung

Synopsis:
Ming is an attractive young gay man whose mother committed suicide after a big argument concerning his homosexuality. He moves out of his public housing estate flat, and eventually becomes a freelance male prostitute with the help of his roommate, Cyrus, a flamboyant gay man with a passion for drugs and partying. When his boyfriend Yan finds out about Ming¡¦s profession, he decides to leave Ming, but later on, his love for Ming brings him back. Yet Yan, who is ten years Ming¡¦s senior, cannot resist the urge to ¡¥save¡¦ his younger lover. Troubled by Ming¡¦s partying as well as his choice of profession, Yan tries to exert greater and greater control over him, which only leads Ming to withdraw into more partying and drugs. When Ming rebuffs Yan¡¦s suggestion to move in together, and propose that they break up instead, Yan calls the police on Ming. Ming gets sentenced to a Christian drug treatment centre, where he encounters Keung, a recovering heroin addict. Even though Ming finds the centre stifling, he is impressed by Keung¡¦s warmth and generosity, and forms a deep bond with him. When he is released from the centre, Ming moves in with Keung and his girlfriend Jackie, and becomes entangled in a complicated relationship with the two, with unexpected results.

Three narrow gates 20/6 ( Sat)
2008/105min./color/
In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
Director: Vincent Chui

Synopsis:
It has been ten years since the historical handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China. However, Hong Kong¡¦s progress toward democracy is still dissatisfactory today while people in the society tend to play safe and be indifferent to the political environment. 6277 is a good-for-nothing who was kicked out from the police force due to his addiction to gambling and the subsequent debts, Eva is a green and aggressive woman newspaper reporter who is eager for promotion. Mr Ma is a pastor who is reproached for hosting a programme on social commentary on the radio. The three have been unrelated until now a murder in a law firm links them together, and leads them to unmask a scandal about some secret deals between the dominating business tycoons and the governments in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

The Bible says, ¡§Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it (Mathew 7:14). ¡§It is a long and difficult road to truths and justice. Could the three protagonists be conscious and determined enough to persevere in revealing the truth while people around them are either ignorant or indifferent?

Reunion 21/6(Sun)
1988/ 63min./color/
In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
Director: Kwen Park-huen
Cast: Pau Wai-leung, Yiu Hin-sui

Synopsis:
The story covers one day in the life of an unemployed man and his estranged wife. In the morning, the man visits a prostitute whom he frequents, who has now set up her business in a new apartment. Later, upon returning home, he discovers that his sister is about to leave home with her boyfriend. Alone with his young son, he takes the child to see his wife, hoping that she will take them in... One of Hong kong's best -known independent filmmakers, Kwan Park Huen's short films combine a sensitivity for the dramatic in ordinary situations with warm portrayals of characters and relationships. His first 16mm feature, which culls some outstanding performances form the cast, tells the reality and fantasy of an unemployed man driven by strong sexual desires and his relationship with a prostitute which wrecks his family life. Although marred by an overly dramatic ending, Kwan Park-huen handles his rough chunk of life with a strong conviction, searching for redemption in the claustrophobic apartments that constitute his views of the world.